the monastery in the vicinity of Begaljica. Belgrade and its surroundings were under constant threat due to the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. In 1688, during the Great Turkish War, the Habsburg troops took control over most of present-day Serbia after numerous battles and successfully besieging Belgrade, with the massive help of Serbs, but when the King redirected all forces to the Nine Years' War, the Ottomans closed in and took the city in 1690, ending the Habsburg conquests. Fear of Ottoman retaliation started the Great Serb Migrations from south of the Danube deeper into Habsburg territory. In 1717 the Austrians took the city again, and Belgrade and its surroundings became the Kingdom of Serbia, 1718–1739, and the villages around Belgrade were deserted and therefore temporarily settled with families from Worms and Styria, including Begaljica, which under Austrian administration was called Bigaliza. In 1732, Begaljica was part of the Orthodox parish of Rajinovac, and had 20 houses. Archimandrite Spiridon Vitković is mentioned as the prior of Rakovica and Rajinovac monasteries, possibly due to Rajinovac being deserted at the time, so it was put in joint administration. Serbian volunteers in the Austrian army liberated central Serbia in 1788, and the second Kingdom of Serbia was established. By 1791 however the Austrians were forced into withdrawal across the Danube and Sava rivers, joined by thousands of Serbian families who feared Ottoman revenge for supporting the Habsburgs. During the First Serbian Uprising, Begaljica was part of the Grocka nahija which was headed by oborknez Stevan Andrejić Palalija, murdered in the Slaughter of the Dukes (1804). Oborknez Palalija was buried in Rajinovac. The village is mentioned in collected Serbian epic poetry about the Serb Uprising against the janissaries (see The Revolt of the Serbs Against the Turks 1804–1913, p. 48). The Serbian Revolution led to unrest in all of Serbia due to Ottoman retaliation, including Grocka region which halted its development, and only after the Second Serbian Uprising (1815) and stability of the political situation in Serbia, Grocka region started to intensively develop. In haraç (tax) texts, Begaljica had 51 houses in 1818, and 52 houses in 1822. Joakim Vujić crossed by the village in 1827, and registered the three villages (parishes) of Rajinovac: Begaljica, Kamendol and Umčari as having 89 houses and 1212 people. In 1845, the village community wanted to move the school from the Rajinovica Monastery to the village itself, and in 1846 there